Jimmy Carter to Serve as Electoral Observer in GuyanaFormer US president Jimmy Carter will go to Georgetown, the capital of Guyana, on Friday to join in a group of international observers for general elections on Monday.Carter, observer to the Guyanan general elections in 1992, will work together with 11 observers who already in Guyana since Sunday, it is reported. Protesters gathered outside the electoral commission on Tuesday to demonstrate against reported inaccuracies in voter registration lists. The protest turned violent after the arrest of five demonstrators, including a TV talk show star Mark Benscho, who urged his viewers to protest and demand a postponement of the elections. The protesters hurled stones to police and set afire tires and utility poles. Two police officers were injured. Officers fired warning shots in the air, and police barricaded the electoral commission and the police station just south of Georgetown where Benscho was being held on Tuesday night. Guyana suffers from sporadic violent uprisings since the December 1997 elections, when the opposition National People's Congress refused to recognize the victory of the Progressive Popular Civic Party. |
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